I’ve got a Magma kettle barbecue that claims it can be used as an oven. I’m skeptical, because the Magma’s control valve doesn’t seem to offer nearly enough precision to maintain any kind of consistent temperature. But the truth is I’ve never tried it.
Every once in while, though, I wonder about baking something aboard. Usually, it’s chocolate chip cookies I dream about…mmmmm, Toll House cookies.
So this press release caught my eye. Could this strange-looking device really do what it claims? Feedback in the comments section below, from onboard oven veterans, is appreciated! On with the press release…
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Conventional ovens take up valuable space and aren’t always transportable. With the innovative OM4500 Omnia Oven from InterCon Marketing, outdoor enthusiasts can prepare delicious baked meals and fresh bread in their trailers, campers, tents, boats or weekend cottages.
Requiring no installation, the advanced OM4500 Omnia Oven bakes food on a gas stove, alcohol stove or electric hotplate. A unique, three-part design includes a 2.1 qt. aluminum dish, treated-steel base plate with center hole and an aluminum lid. Ventilation holes give cakes and breads room to rise.
Easy to use, the OM4500 Omnia Oven uses the burner to provide an equal distribution of heat. Food is cooked evenly from the top with a central, cone-shaped hole and the bottom with an air lock between the base plate and the aluminum dish.
Any meal that can be prepared in an oven can be easily made on a stove top with the OM4500 Omnia Oven. Users can try their favorite recipes or employ the supplied recipe book to create appetizing dishes, such as potatoes au gratin and omnia calzone.
Measuring 10.5" in diameter and 5.5" H, including knob, the compact OM4500 Omnia Oven from InterCon Marketing weighs only 1.1 lbs. Tested on all traditional heat sources, it has a suggested retail price of $79.95.
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I see no reason whatsoever not to at least try it out. Best case scenario….fresh cookies! Worst case….raw cookie dough. Wait, that sounds like a win-win to me.
I carried a somewhat similar thing while bicycling, and with care it did work for cakes and the like. Good even heat-dispersion is critical, and people have had success with breads using a heavy pressure cooker.
Why don’t you merely use a pressure cooker? Cruisers have been using these to bake for years. You can even use them on the grill. There are a number of good cookbooks for pressure cookers.
Here is the first site Google found for baking in the pressure cooker http://www.instructables.com/id/Easy-Bread-Anywhere:-%22Baking%22-bread-in-a-pressure-/
Also, pressure cookers allow you to quickly cook GREAT means on board.
I never thought of using a pressure cooker to bake; thanks for the suggestion and web sites.
Try it out and let us know how it turns out. But I’ll probably continue using the pressure cooker – so much more versatile.
Hi, I was browsing “yea old internet” when I stumbled onto your website and the post above. Having spent the best part of the summers of my youth afloat in my parents boat I can inform you of two thing with a great deal of certainty. 1 the product is hardly an innovation, mom and dad has had a similar/identical product on their boat for at least 30 years, the “Optimus Mini-Oven”, it is considered a “classic” in my part of the world. 2 The oven works perfectly well within it’s limitations, a true and tested favorite is spongecake but if memory serves me right there was even a cook-book published with recipes specifically adapted for the oven.
Wow that brings back childhood memories, drinking tea and eating freshly baked spongecake, while the rain is poring down outside.
-Best regards from Sweden
Pontus
I would like to order one Omnia stove top oven. Do you ship to Canada?
It’s wonderful — check out my full review and a bunch of photos of stuff I baked on my blog, The Boat Galley:
http://theboatgalley.com/omnia-stove-top-baking-oven/
I’ve used it for breads, cakes, baked beans, coffee cakes and lots more that I’m forgetting . . . highly recommend!